Video Editing Rig - £1000-£1200 please

Rikki

Rikki

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Finally got the money through Ive been expecting for a couple of months (since my last post in this forum).

So now I have cash in the bank Im thinking of something new that will be overclocked to the max, edit videos at a good speed (AVCHD H264 MP4 1920x1080) and run my 3 x Dell 23" monitors - but also allow for 3 x 27" dual link DVI monitors in a few months time.

Whats peoples thoughts on the following (Ive included both an Intel and Crucial SSD as Im not sure which is more reliable) and put two 140mm fans in (not sure if it should be the 120mm ones).

I plumped for the AMD graphics for video editing but again not sure if thats best, its for use with Sony Vegas Pro 11.

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YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - AMD 3 for FREE Promotion £319.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £254.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard with FREE BOOGIE BUG XXL GAMING MOUSE MAT £129.98
1 x Intel 520 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £119.99
1 x XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £96.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX16GX3M2A1600C11) £95.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £94.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM2+/AM3+) £84.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Fractal Design Define R3 Midi Tower Case - Arctic White £79.99
2 x Akasa AK-FN062 Apache Black Super Silent 140mm Fan - 4 Pin PWM £14.99 (£29.98)
Total : £1,408.36 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
YOUR BASKET
1 x VTX3D HD 7970 X-Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - AMD 3 for FREE Promotion £319.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £254.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard with FREE BOOGIE BUG XXL GAMING MOUSE MAT £129.98
1 x Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750HXUK) £99.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) £89.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £84.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Fractal Design Define R3 Midi Tower Case - Arctic White £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED316G1600HC11DC) £71.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket LGA2011/1366/1155/1156/775/ AMD AM3/AM3+/AM2/AM2+/FM1) £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £12.98
Total : £1,275.36 (includes shipping : £13.75).



how's about this?
better graphics card for the same price (7970 vs the 7950)
better (imo) psu, some of the xfx xxx edition has fan ticking noise problems (just google)
cheaper ram, same specs
faster ssd (samsung 830)
a all-in-one cooler isnt really needed, so i saved some $$$ going for the matterhorn pure
i see you didnt add a hdd or optical drive in, i specced a 2tb one, but if you dont need it just remove it and you're back within budget ;p

edit: dont worry about case fans (yet) if you find temps getting abit out of control, just buy 1or2 down the line, you have free delivery from ocuk anyway ;p
 
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Thanks tamzzy - I made a mistake in not saying I have 2 x 2TB drives already and the Apache fans are to replace the noisy ones on the Kuhler that people were talking about elsewhere on the forum.

The VTX3D card is a very good shout and Id prefer the Corsair PSU too thanks :)

I thought if Im going to OC the CPU then the AIO water system was a good bet to keep heat away and also run quieter.

Would prefer to go with Intel I think for their 5 year warranty in the SSD and the fact they apparently use top source NAND chips.

Who are TeamGroup - never heard of them before ?

Again, thanks for the heads up!

Rik
 
Here's my updated spec based on advice from your good self :)


YOUR BASKET
1 x VTX3D HD 7970 X-Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - AMD 3 for FREE Promotion £319.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £254.99
1 x Intel 520 Series 180GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard with FREE BOOGIE BUG XXL GAMING MOUSE MAT £129.98
1 x Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750HXUK) £99.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX16GX3M2A1600C11) £95.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM2+/AM3+) £84.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Fractal Design Define R3 Midi Tower Case - Arctic White £79.99
2 x Akasa AK-FN062 Apache Black Super Silent 140mm Fan - 4 Pin PWM £14.99 (£29.98)
Total : £1,376.36 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
If you think you'll add more than 16GB of RAM you will need windows professional or ultimate.

Are you gaming at all? You seem to be spending a lot on a GPU
 
No gaming, but Vegas Pro seems to like fast graphics cards to aid in GPU rendering and previewing while editing video.

Good shout on the 16GB RAM thing ... changed it over to pro - for the cost its a worthwhile option :)

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YOUR BASKET
1 x VTX3D HD 7970 X-Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - AMD 3 for FREE Promotion £319.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £254.99
1 x Intel 520 Series 180GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £179.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard with FREE BOOGIE BUG XXL GAMING MOUSE MAT £129.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-04649) £119.99
1 x Corsair HX 750W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750HXUK) £99.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX16GX3M2A1600C11) £95.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM2+/AM3+) £84.98
1 x Fractal Design Define R3 Midi Tower Case - Arctic White £79.99
2 x Akasa AK-FN062 Apache Black Super Silent 140mm Fan - 4 Pin PWM £14.99 (£29.98)
Total : £1,412.36 (includes shipping : £13.75).

 
Vegas Pro prefers AMD or NVidia? You also have the 670's around that price range.

Stuff looks good. For the price of the antec Kuhler and fans, I'd just get a Noctua NH-D14, maybe an Obsidian 550D, and GTX 670 Windforce 3X.

The Intel 520 is good.
 
Ive got 3 monitors to run though so thought NVidia could only run 2? :S

Thanks for the reply :)
 
Well I think you are over spending on the GPU for sure. I'm pretty sure adobe premiere supports quicksync. This just uses the IGP to acclerate the process, you dont even need a GPU installed to make use of it and it is very good. On the SB i5 2500K (@4.4Ghz) i did a 2 pass encode of a 2hr DVD (on the fly from the disk) in 20mins with quicksync on :D

As you get free delivery why not ommit the GPU. Have a play with quicksync and see what you think. You need a GPU obviously to run 3 screens but you might not need to shell out as much as you think on one ;)

The nvidia 600 series can now do 3 screens from the one GPU, bit late as eyefinity on AMD has allowed this for ages i know. Vegas doesnt support cuda but the nvidia GPU can still accelerate it just as well as the AMD GPU.
 
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Thanks for that, look at this : http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro/gpuacceleration

I need OpenCL support and it mentions :

NVIDIA
Requires a CUDA-enabled GPU and driver 270.xx or later. GeForce GPUs:

AMD/ATI
Requires an OpenCL-enabled GPU and Catalyst driver 11.7 or later with a Radeon HD 57xx or higher GPU. If using a FirePro GPU, FirePro unified driver 8.85 or later is required.

But nothing with QuickSync mentioned ?
 
Rikki said:
Thanks for that, look at this : http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro/gpuacceleration

I need OpenCL support and it mentions :

NVIDIA
Requires a CUDA-enabled GPU and driver 270.xx or later. GeForce GPUs:

AMD/ATI
Requires an OpenCL-enabled GPU and Catalyst driver 11.7 or later with a Radeon HD 57xx or higher GPU. If using a FirePro GPU, FirePro unified driver 8.85 or later is required.

But nothing with QuickSync mentioned ?
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It doesnt support quicksync, it's relatively new tech so to speak. That's why I mentioned adobe premiere, you can download trials to test kit out and see what suits your needs best.

If you were buying a GPU I would favour Nvidia myself. Vegas doesn't support CUDA but it is commonly used by other software (adobe for example), OpenCL is compatible with AMD or Nvidia as your post shows :)
 
I dont want to toss out £600 worth of Sony editing software and buy new stuff and learn it all though LOL :D

REAL shame Vegas doesnt use quicksync, just had a good read up on it there :)

Can I run 3 monitors from an NVidia card btw?
 
I might get shot down here, but why haven't you thought about an iMac? I thought they were purpose made for media related tasks?
 
cuz macs are overpriced shizzle compared to a self built pc?
lol, imo anyway
just paying to have a half-bitten apple logo and the design
 
Johnz0r

Because I have invested thousands in PC software and have used them since 1991 and am quite happy.

No point throwing away everything and having to re-learn a new system and programs to do my job.

I'll look into this GTX 6xx thingy matey - never knew this!

Got my finger on the trigger, 5UB is awaiting my payment :D
 
Rikki said:
Johnz0r

Because I have invested thousands in PC software and have used them since 1991 and am quite happy.

No point throwing away everything and having to re-learn a new system and programs to do my job.

I'll look into this GTX 6xx thingy matey - never knew this!

Got my finger on the trigger, 5UB is awaiting my payment :D
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We have to ask questions and make suggestions bud to try and figure out what's best, at the end of the day only you know what's best for you :)

I did edit in much earlier about the 600 series now being able to run 3 screens. Sorry if you missed it, Olivier has been a great help :)
 
Hey honosuseri - after doing a bit more homework tonight it turns out that the GTX 6xx range dont play ball with the video encoding software I use :(

The GTX 570 works but it wont support 3 monitors.

So downgrading to the HD 6870 which *should* run 3 monitors and is supported by Vegas and MainConcepts encoders!

Phew!

Saved a couple hundred quid into the deal as well and if Sony get their act together I can swap in a newer GFX board :)
 
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Hey honosuseri - after doing a bit more homework tonight it turns out that the GTX 6xx range dont play ball with the video encoding software I use :(

The GTX 570 works but it wont support 3 monitors.

So downgrading to the HD 6870 which *should* run 3 monitors and is supported by Vegas and MainConcepts encoders!

Phew!

Saved a couple hundred quid into the deal as well and if Sony get their act together I can swap in a newer GFX board :)
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That's a great saving. Do your monitors have the new style display port? If they don't you need to buy an active adapter for the GPU display port output....i'm sure you are looking into eyefinity as we speak lol
 
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